UC Santa Cruz research innovations and academic programs advance brain and mental health.
Neural tissue engineering aims to mimic the brain's complex environment, the extracellular matrix, which supports nerve cell ...
A new study highlights five key eras of human brain development, and they don’t align with age quite as one might expect.
Your brain constantly rewires itself as you age. It may even go through five distinct epochs of wiring between birth and ...
Multidisciplinary research on the interactions between the brain and other body systems not only advances our knowledge of how the human body works but also offers critical insights into our ...
As prominent artificial intelligence (AI) researchers eye limits to the current phase of the technology, a different approach is gaining attention: using living human brain cells as computational ...
From custom gene editing to a discovery that could help stop pancreatic cancer before it starts, these advances offer a ...
The human body is a masterpiece of engineering. Beyond the common facts everyone knows, there are peculiar abilities, rare ...
Ultra-high-field brain scans reveal integrated maps of vision and touch, highlighting the brain's role in embodied perception ...
When you watch someone’s hand get hit in a movie, you flinch. Same for feet, face, or any body part. Nature study explains why ...
A transparent chip no larger than a stick of gum is helping scientists at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, ...